ORT Argentina Advises the Ministry of Education of Santa Fe Province

The advice and training project that ORT Argentina is carrying out with authorities, supervisors and teachers of the Ministry of Education of Santa Fe Province came to an end for this year.

In the last week, the final addressees of the project, teachers and students, worked in their classrooms with the virtual materials created during the last four months. The Minister of Education of Santa Fe Province, Mrs. Elida Rasino, visited the classrooms of various schools and congratulated the students and the working teams. She talked to the media and highlighted the important contribution that such work provides, achieved with ORT Argentina support.
The Provincial High-School Principal of the Ministry of Education of Santa Fe Province, Letizia Mengarelli, sent a letter to our Executive Director, Dr. Adrián Moscovich, to express her gratitude and satisfaction with respect to the accomplishments obtained:

The “Pedagogical Laboratories” project was carried out with the help of ORT Argentina and wonderfully coordinated by Viviana Jasid and Alejandro Ferrari (Principal and Studies Director –respectively- of ORT Technical School, Belgrano campus). Since this years’ phase of the project is coming to an end, we would like to express our gratitude and sincere congratulations to all the team who have been involved. They have been working hand in hand with the Ministry of Education of Santa Fe Province since August. The transfer of knowledge and expertise of the Teaching and Learning Resources Centre (CREA) –developed by ORT Technical Schools- has exceeded the expectations in the implementation of an innovation space in the Ministry of Education of Santa Fe Province.

ORT: Open Venue for International Exams Administration

Last Friday 20th, November, the administration of the Cambridge-ESOL international exams started. Our School, for the first time, was the open venue to the community. Approximately 120 ORT School students were involved and other schools sat for the exam in our premises.

ORT Schools prepare their students for the Cambridge-ESOL examinations. After that, they take a computer-based test, since it complies with the technological standards requested.

ORT Schools have incorporated Cambridge-ESOL exams to the English curriculum so as to offer students better training, to promote the study of the language, to facilitate the access to superior education and to motivate students to get more confident in their ability to use English successfully.

The exams cover the different levels of knowledge in English and our students have been prepared all the year round with material specially designed by the schools, and in all the linguistic skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.

Argentine Olympiads in Physics

From October 19th to 25th, the National Olympiads in Physics were carried in Córdoba Province. Some of our students obtained the third position awards: Nicolás Kovalsky (5th year – Electronics), Manuel Lantelme (5th year – Electronics) and Juan Ignacio Ochoa Ciro (5th year – Electronics).

We congratulate the participants and their coach Gabriel Riccardi!!!

Cultural Exchange with a British Adolescent

Within the framework of the programme “Talking with Natives” –organised by the English Department, David Romain, an adolescent from Great Britain, visited us last Wednesday 4th, November.

“Talking with Natives” is a space where we invite different English-speaking people so as to give our students the chance to listen and practice the language with people with different accents and intonations.

The subject was “Cultural Exchange”, and David told us about his life in England as a kid and as an adolescent, about schools in the UK, what adolescents do during the weekend, etc.

During the meeting, the students were very enthusiastic and asked questions to David, apart from telling him their own experiences.

This type of activities stimulates our students to make an effort to master the English language.

Building Constructions and Chemistry

Our students have attained new accomplishments.

On this occasion, the distinguished students belong to the Constructions and Chemistry traces.


On November 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th, the 3rd National Olympiads in Constructions took place. The National Institute of Technological Education (INET) organizes such event with the aim of gathering constructions’ teachers and students from high-school technical schools and professional training centres of the country, both from the public and private sectors. They take part in academic contests to test the knowledge, skills and competences students have on such track. We would like to share the news on the awards obtained by our students:


Gold Medal
Exhibition (Exhibition and evaluation of a final project which covers the professional scope of the Master Builder).
Michelle Kladniev
Shirly Caplan
Sheila Khodriya

Gold Medal
Group Integrator (Design and complete documentation of a house. Three-day contest).
Gonzalo Zylberman
Tomás Waisman
Alexander Campos.

Gold Medal
Thermic Installations
Matías Zak

Silver Medal
Sanitary Installations
Yanina Waisberg

Mentions
Maia Lax Breiterman Thermic Installations
Luciana Teper Metallic and wooden constructions
Carolina Levin Metallic and wooden constructions


Gold Medal - National Olympiads in Chemistry
Ezequiel Maidanik -6th year/ Chemistry – obtained the Gold medal at the 19th National Olympiads in Chemistry, which was carried out in Córdoba Province, city of Villa Giardino, from November 3rd to 6th. This award enables Ezequiel to be part of the national Olympic team.

We congratulate all the students, tutor teachers and coaches who were involved in these Olympiads. We would like to stand out the effort and committment of each of the participants to achieve such outstanding results.

Talking with Lior Ben Dor, Political Advisor of the Embassy of Israel in Argentina

Within the framework of the school subject 'Jewish Culture', on Tuesday 27th, October, the political advisor of the Embassy of Israel in Argentina, Lior Ben Dor, visited our School and talked about the present situation in Israel and the Middle East.

A great number of students -interested in learning about this issue- participated in the conference.

This activity emerged from the fluent relationship there is with the representatives of the State of Israel in Argentina.

Dr. Robert Aumann Visits ORT

We are very pleased to inform you that Dr. Robert Aumann, Nobel Prize in Economy 2005, will give a lecture to our students from both campuses within the framework of a series of meetings with academic authorities, researchers, students, businessmen, professional entrepreneurs and local community leaders. Dr. Aumann has been invited to Argentina by the Argentinian Friends of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Menorah, the Youth Organization.

We would like to invite you to take part in this conference, which will take place on November 4th at 10.30am at the Rio de Janeiro Auditorium, Almagro campus.

Congratulations to Alan Jais!!!

The International Jewish Film Festival in Argentina will premiere “A PINTALE ID, The Jewish Essence”, the latest documentary by the young Argentine film-maker Alan Jais - graduate student from the Mass Media track at ORT Belgrano campus. The event will take place from November 5th to 11th, 2009, in Buenos Aires. The film will also be premiered at the International JewishEye Festival in Ashkelon, Israel, from October 19th to 27th.

The film focuses on certain aspects of the homonym theatre play by Myrtha Schalom, with adapted texts by Jorge Schussheim, show which was on stage for 3 years at the Ben Ami Auditorium to testify the state of Yiddish and its theatre in Argentina.

Electronic Art Concert

ORT Institute of Technology

Electronic Art Concert

Tuesday 8th, September - 20.30hs

Noel Werthein Auditorium

240 Yatay St., ORT Almagro Campus

Rikudim Solidarity Festival

Thursday 10th, September
20.30hs - 240 Yatay St.

ExpoUniversity at ORT Belgrano

On September 15th, within the framework of the school’s vocational and occupational guidance program for senior high-school students, ExpoUniversity will take place.

The students will walk around the stands placed in Montañeses hall, and they will get informative talks and flyers with information of the various courses of study each university offers.

The most prestigious universities and colleges will be present, among which we could mention: Palermo University, Belgrano, UADE, Di Tella, CAECE, San Andres, UCES, UCEMA, University of Buenos Aires (there is a meeting scheduled for Wednesday 16th), ITBA and ORT Institutes of Technology.

Shakespear at ORT

Invited by ORT Belgrano Institute of Technology and its Design Center, Ronald Shakespear gave a conference on Wednesday 26th, August, called “Half a Century of Design”. He introduced his last book “Design Sign – Memory of Practice” during the activity. He exhibited a show reel of his graphic work and told anecdotal stories about his professional and academic career in the design world.

During the event, ORT Argentina’s President, Dr. Héctor Rosenzvit, and the 1st Vice President, Architect Darío Jaraj, gave the designer Ronald Shakespear the “ORT Friend” distinction.

The Academic Director of the Institution, Prof. Silvia Mora, ORT Institute authorities, teachers and students from the first ORT post degree in Packaging participated. 6th-year students from the Advertising track of the Raggio Technical School also attended.

Workshop on Entrepreneurship Management for Visually and Hearing-Impaired People

Today, students and teachers from the Business Administration track, Belgrano campus, have initiated a workshop on Entrepreneurship Management for visually and hearing-impaired people.

The project is carried out along with AUDELA, a non-profit civil association, which develops programmes to raise awareness and promote social integration of people with disabilities.

The workshop will take 6 weeks, and it will include contents on accounting, marketing, human resources and law among others. The classes will be delivered by teachers and students of the track with teaching materials developed in the school.

Successful Presentation of Profundar 2009

Last Tuesday 18th, the Argentine-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, ORT Entrepreneurship Centre and ORT Graduates’ Centre -on behalf of ORT Argentina- introduced the first day of “Profundar 2009”. The aim of the activity was to provide entrepreneurs and SMEs with the necessary tools and information to carry out their projects in a simple, quick and efficient way.

At the opening ceremony there was Horacio Roura, who is in charge of the Undersecretary of Small and Medium Enterprises and Regional Development; Roland Schäfer, Minister of the German Embassy in Buenos Aires; Dr. Thomas Leonhardt, Vice President of the Argentine-German Chamber; and Mr. Pablo Taraciuk, member of ORT Argentina’s Board of Directors. All of them agreed on the importance of carrying out an event with these characteristics, whose objectives are oriented towards sustaining SMEs and entrepreneurs’ projects.

The activity was divided into two sections: entrepreneurs and SMEs to be able to focus on each area’s needs.

“HP Innovation in Education” Grant

In August, Hewlett Packard gave ORT Technical Schools an award for winning the “HP Innovation in Education” grant. The winning project incorporated the new educational technologies to improve the teaching and learning of Mathematics, and it was developed by the Teaching & Learning Resources Centre (“CREA”), along with the Mathematics Department and Technological Education Area.

The award consists of an HP Mobile Digital Classroom (estimated in U$S 70,000), which contains resources such as Mini Note PCs, Digital Boards and Tablet PCs.

This new computing equipment will be incorporated into the classrooms and laboratories in September, thus increasing the amount and variety of technological resources with which our students will learn, and contributing to the continuous improvement of the educational quality of our institution.

It is important to stand out that this is the 2nd time that Hewlett Packard grants such an award to our institution. In July 2007, ORT Technical Schools obtained the “Technology for Teaching Higher Education” grant, thanks to a project developed by the CREA and the Technological Education Area. The grant enabled the implementation of an educational research project based on the application of mobile technologies to the classrooms. 30 teachers and more than 1600 students are involved in this project, which will continue till the end of 2009.

ORT Students at the International Olympiads in Informatics

Every year, the best young programmers of the world meet at the International Olympiads in Informatics. This year, the 21st International Olympiads in Informatics is carried out in Bulgaria from August 8th to 15th.

The Argentine team is composed by Lucas Tavolaro (student from the Electronics track), Joaquín Fixman (from the ICT track), and Nicolás Ponieman (graduate student from ICT track). We’ll follow up the development of the contest at this blog.

Solidarity Campaigns 2009

Solidarity Campaigns 2009
From August 10th to 21st - Ceibo Project

Sneakers
for the school in Villaguay we support

Kitchen Paper Towel Roll
for the Dafne Natalí Flexer Foundation

Commemoration Activity on the National Day of the Memory

On Tuesday 31st, there was an activity at the Almagro campus to commemorate the National Day of Memory. Mariano Levin, who was exiled during the last military coup, visited us.

The event, organized by students and teachers of the Musical Production track, began with a short film on the exile, and then followed a debate moderated by two students.

At the end, a musical theme of the time was interpreted.

National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice

The 3rd-year Coordination Department has been carrying out different activities to commemorate the National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice. Among them, a meeting with Tatiana Sfiligoy -the first granddaughter found by Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo- was organized. Tatiana told her story and answered the students’ questions.

We would like to share with you a text by Eduardo Galeano, which was read during the activity:

Does history repeat? Or does it repeat as a punishment to those who are incapable of listening to it? There is no dumb history. No matter how much they burn it, or break it, or lie about it, human history refuses to shut up. The right to recall does not appear among the human rights established by the United Nations, but today it is vital to vindicate it and put it into practice: not so as to repeat the past, but to prevent it from repeating; not so that we -who are alive- become ventriloquists of those who are dead, but to be able to speak aloud without being condemned to the perpetual eco of stupidity and disgrace. When the memory is truly alive, it is in the air we breathe, and memory, from the air, breathes us.

Israeli Ambassador at ORT

Daniel Gazit -Israeli Ambassador in Argentina- and his wife were welcomed at ORT Almagro campus by the President and Members of ORT Argentina’s Board of Directors, the Executive Director, senior staff from both campuses and the students who traveled to Israel through JAIL and March of the Living programs. You can find the coverage of the visit at http://campus.almagro.ort.edu.ar/visitamarzo2009

Opening of the 2009 School Year – Almagro Campus

ORT Technical School Principal (Almagro campus), Diana Grimbe, invites you to participate in the Opening Ceremony of the 2009 School Year, which will be broadcast at ORT Virtual Campus next Monday, March 9th, at 10.30am at http://campus.almagro.ort.edu.ar/

Opening of the 2009 School Year– Belgrano Campus

ORT Technical School Principal (Belgrano campus), Viviana Jasid, invites you to participate in the Opening Ceremony of the 2009 School Year, which will be broadcast at ORT Virtual Campus next Monday, March 9th, at 8 am at http://campus.belgrano.ort.edu.ar/

A Ticket to Japan

The 6th-year student Sebastián Vishnopolska, from the Chemistry track, is one of the 4 Argentine representatives at the International Olympiads in Biology, which will take place in Japan from July 12th-19th.

2009 Shagrirei Israel

Within the framework of the 2009 Shagrirei Israel programme, Israeli high-school students from the Kugel School, located at Israeli city of Holon, and students from our School met at the Mini Israel park.